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 ===Determiners===
-There are three types of determiners in Peshpeg.  The language has a definite marker that refers not only to specific or highly referential nouns, but it may also serve to refer to an abstract class e.g. ''gazhda'' < ''*gal-gda</u>'' "the (class of animals known as) horse".  The definite marker is also used to nominalize verbs, e.g. ''lozha'' < ''loz-<u>sha</u>'' "singing".  The definite marker, which occurs as a suffix, has different forms that agree in number and gender with their noun heads; however, it does not mark for case.  The forms for the definite marker are as follows:
+There are three types of determiners in Peshpeg that occur either as suffixes, such as the definite and demonstrative suffixes, or as independent
+words that precede their noun heads, to which they are joined with the linker ''mon'', e.g. ''Golahách mon nodorzhi'' "the Ín Duári slave".
+The language has a definite marker that refers not only to specific or highly referential nouns, but it may also serve to refer to an abstract class e.g. ''gazhda'' < ''*gal-gda</u>'' "the (class of animals known as) horse".  The definite marker is also used to nominalize verbs, e.g. ''lozha'' < ''loz-<u>sha</u>'' "singing".  The definite marker, which occurs as a suffix, has different forms that agree in number and gender with their noun heads; however, it does not mark for case.  The forms for the definite marker are as follows:
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